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The Complete List of Stocks That Pay Dividends in September

Published on March 14th, 2018

Retirees face several unique challenges from an investment perspective.

One is the desire to have a consistent amount of passive income being generated each month. In order to do this, retirees need information and data on what stocks pay dividends in each month of the calendar year.

That’s where Sure Dividend comes in. We maintain databases of stocks that pay dividends in each month of the calendar year. You can download our list of stocks that pay dividends in September below.

The list of stocks that pay dividends in September available for download at the link above contains the following information for every stock in the database:

Name

Ticker

Last dividend payment date in the month of September

Dividend yield

Dividend payout ratio

Price-to-earnings ratio

Price-to-book ratio

Market capitalization

Beta

Return on equity

Keep reading this article to learn about how to maximize the usefulness of our list of stocks that pay dividends in September.

How to Use The List of Stocks That Pay Dividends in September to Find Investment Ideas

Having an Excel document that contains the name, ticker, and financial information of every stock that pays dividends in September can be extremely useful.

This resource’s utility is greatly improved when combined with a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

With that in mind, this tutorial will demonstrate how you can apply two useful investing screens to the securities in our database of stocks that pay dividends in September.

The first screen we’ll implement is for stocks that generate high returns on shareholders’ equity and trade at reasonable multiples of that shareholders’ equity. More specifically, our screen will look for stocks with returns on equity above 15% and price-to-book ratios below 2.

Screen 1: Returns on Equity Above 15%, Price-to-Book Ratios Below 2

Step 1: Download your free list of stocks that pay dividends in September by clicking here.

Step 2: Click the filter icon at the top of the return on equity column, as shown below.

Step 3: Change the filter setting to “Greater Than” and input 0.15 into the field besdie it. Note that since return on equity is measured in percentage points, this is equivalent to filtering for stocks with returns on equity above 15%.

Step 4: Close out of the filter window (by clicking the exit button, not by clicking the “Clear Filter” button in the bottom right corner). Next, click the filter button at the top of the price-to-book ratio column, as shown below.

Step 5: Change the filter setting to “Less Than” and input 2 into the field beside it. This will filter for stocks that pay dividends in September with price-to-book ratios below 2.

The remaining stocks that show in this database are stocks that pay dividends in September with returns on equity above 15% and price-to-book ratios below 2.

The next screen that we’ll demonstrate how to implement is for stocks that pay dividends in September with dividend yields above 3% and price-to-earnings ratios above 16.

Screen 2: Dividend Yields Above 3%, Price-to-Earnings Ratios Below 16

Step 1: Download your free list of stocks that pay dividends in September by clicking here.

Step 2: Click the filter icon at the top of the dividend yield column, as shown below.

Step 3: Change the filter setting to “Greater Than” and input 0.03 into the field beside it, as shown below. This will filter for stocks that pay dividends in September with dividend yields above 3%.

Step 4: Close out of the filter window (by clicking the exit button, not by clicking the “Clear Filter” button in the bottom right corner). Next, click the filter icon at the top of the price-to-earnings ratio column, as shown below.

Step 5: Change the filter setting to “Less Than” and input 16 into the field beside it, as shown below. This will filter for stocks that pay dividends in September with price-to-earnings ratios below 16.

The remaining stocks in this spreadsheet are stocks that pay dividends in September with dividend yields above 3% and price-to-earnings ratios below 16.

By now, you have a solid understanding of how to use our list of stocks that pay dividends in September to find investment ideas.

The remainder of this article will introduce other resources that you can use along you investing journey to make better portfolio management decisions for the long run.

Closing Thoughts: Other Useful Investing Resources

Having an Excel database that contains the names and financial information for all stocks that pay dividends in September is useful, but it is not the only investing resources you will need to create a well-structured passive income portfolio.

Obviously, the other calendar months are important too. With that in mind, Sure Dividend also maintains (and updates monthly) the following stock market databases:

Without a doubt, diversifying your monthly income is an important component of a passive income-focused investment strategy.

Another important component of a successful investing philosophy is diversifying your investment portfolio by stock market sector. With that in mind, Sure Dividend maintains the following stock market indices available for download at the following links:

Once you have achieved an appropriate level of diversification, you should seek to invest in the best opportunities – regardless of which sector they’re from or what months they pay dividends.

Our research suggests that the best investment opportunities come from investing in businesses with long histories of steadily increasing their dividend payments. With that in mind, we maintain free databases on the following stock market universes:

Using The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing, we publish detailed month research on dividend growth stocks through the Sure Dividend suite of monthly newsletters. You can read about these newsletters below: